Well that’s a new one. Looks delicious. I’m a big Cadbury fan.

They still have those where I live I think. Chocolate shavings on top?

At 7 years of age I was collecting the grass coming out of my neighbours lawnmower. I was tossing it in the air at my dog who was having great fun jumping into the air catching it.

Cue my neighbour running over my foot with his lawnmower. I didn’t feel much pain as it shredded straight through my runner and skin.

I was rushed to hospital and somehow they saved my toe. It took about five years for me to regain feeling in it.

Edit: oh I missed the word “work”.

A few for me:

• Death of my father.
• Getting married. Hitting 20 years in August. Hopefully many more to come.
• Realising I didn’t enjoy the business course I was on in college, burning the two years already spent and moving to computer science which I loved every minute of.
• Having kids. They bring me so much joy.
• Leaving a well paid job that I didn’t really enjoy and starting my own business.
• Travel. It’s so important to experience different cultures and viewpoints.
• edit: Finding a sport that I loved. I wasn’t a sporty kid but decided to start trying different things in my 20s.

Oh that looks really fun. Thanks!

What is turtles? Never heard of it as a game.

or just don’t at all

I would wager it’s this one. I found that folks who noticed my activity levels tended not to be active themselves so it stood out to them.

I don’t know why, but I was actually shocked by this. With the benefit of 30 seconds hindsight I feel foolish.

I would honestly pony up money to see that.

The 16 year old isn’t capable of consent. They’re a child despite probably thinking they’re not and believing themselves capable of consenting.

The maturity gap between 16 and 21 is a chasm.

Are those actual quotes?

Same. I shaved mine a while back and my best friend was blunt - “You look better with the beard”.

Righto. Beard it is.

It’s actually really shocking for me as a non-American who grew up during the cold war and remembers the shadow of nuclear annihilation hanging over my head, then watching the fall of the Berlin wall then the comparative peace of the latter part of the 90’s where the future looked so bright that there is a real chance of senior American politicians being under the thumb of Russia.

It still kinda blows my mind that it might be true.

I think the people downvoting you are missing that you’ve called OP a master craftsman / are having fun.

It’s an incredible piece of work. Beautiful.

Many thanks!

Narrator: He did not

Walter Cronkite moment

Could you explain that to me?

you are querying a crowd on Lemmy that is going to be biased towards programmer / engineer types that tend to function well in their world due to compulsive features often considered pathologic by others.

I feel personally attacked. :D

Edit: also to answer the question. Yes I absolutely arrange things on the checkout belt.

I group these items: Liquids. Fridge. Cans and bottles. Fruit and veg, heavier ones first so the potatoes don’t crush the berries. Frozen gear near fridge gear. Chemicals / cleaning gear separate.

I should add that I’m buying for a lot of people so the shopping trips tend to be large and there would be a full bag of most of those groupings.

Wow. That’s some beating.

I feel like there’s a good story here that I’m unaware of. If you would be so kind as to fill me in I’d be much obliged.